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Pepperidge Farm closing Aiken bakery

Pepperidge Farm Inc. is closing its bakery operations in Aiken, putting 115 employees out of work.

The company announced Thurs­day it is consolidating operations and plans to shift the majority of the bread made in its Aiken facility to Lakeland, Fla.

“We recently reviewed our operations and identified excess capacity in our bakery network,” said Bill Livingstone, the senior vice president of supply chain and operations, in a news release. “We made the difficult decision to close our plant in Aiken. It is a very good bakery with great people, but it has limited production capabilities, and we’ve recently discontinued a product that accounted for a significant amount of its volume.”